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"My brain reels," moaned Homer the man. " Reality melts away."

r. a. lafferty

— "The Hole in the Corner" from Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970)

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Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.

karl marx

— Notebook I, The Chapter on Money, p. 93

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Helen, did Homer never see Thy beauties, yet could write of thee?

Ben Jonson

— The Underwood,'An Ode' (published1640).

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   Have I not made blind Homer sing to me?

Christopher Marlowe

— c.1592  Doctor Faustus (published1604), act 2, sc.2.

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Though I've never read a line of Homer I believe the Greekof today is essentially unchanged.If anything he is more Greek than he ever was.


— 1941The Colossus of Maroussi, pt.1.

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As learned commentators view In Homer than Homer knew.

jonathan swift

— 1733  'On Poetry', l.103-4.

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The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

william blake

— Preface

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Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."

robert burton

— Section 2, member 4, subsection 6.

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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.

b. w. powe

— Interlude, p. 113

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Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

george saintsbury

— A Last Scrap Book (London: Macmillan, 1924) p. 42

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It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.

francis wayland

— The Iliad and the Bible, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 45.

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It was Homer who inspired the poet.

francis wayland

— The Iliad and the Bible, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 609.

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Read Homer once, and you can read no more, For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.


— John Sheffield (Duke of Buckinghamshire)—An Essay on Poetry, line 323.

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When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god, he said smiling, "That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, ‘such humour as distils from blessed gods.'"

Plutarch

— 43 Alexander.

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Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?"

Plutarch

— 46 Antigonus I.

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Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"

Plutarch

— 48 Themistocles.

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More proof that trusting the Feds to protect our information is like hiring Homer Simpson to guard the donuts.


— Discussing U.S. government personal data mining at the same time its agencies are losing "hundreds of laptops" with sensitive data
— "The biggest rubes, boobs, and noobs of 2006". Notes from the Field (InfoWorld). December 15, 2006. Retrieved on 2006-12-15. 

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Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door and sing ballads, with a company of boys about him."

robert burton

— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Mem. 4. Subsect. 6.

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Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shroud his head.

thomas heywood

— Thomas Heywood, Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.

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Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. I'm aggrieved when sometimes even excellent Homer nods.


— Horace, in Ars Poetica.

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In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.


— Longinus, in On the Sublime.

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Homer, the sovereign poet.


— Dante Alighieri, in Divina Commedia.

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Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.


— Thomas Heywood, in The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, 1635.

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As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.


— Jonathan Swift, in On Poetry, 1733.

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Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?"


— 46 Antigonus I.

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Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, "Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"


— 48 Themistocles.

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[ Homer 's] Fire burns with extraordinary Heat and Vehemence ... Virgil's is a clearer and a chaster Flame ...


— Richard Blackmore, Preface to King Arthur (1697).

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This Fire is discerned in Virgil, but discerned as through a glass, reflected from Homer , more shining than fierce, but every where equal and constant.

Alexander Pope

— Alexander Pope, Preface to Homer's Iliad (1715).

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It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.

francis wayland

— Francis Wayland, The Iliad and the Bible. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 43-45

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